抄録
The purpose of this study was the fabrication of Bioactuator using transgenic somatic muscle and the evaluation of the light response characteristics of the Bioactuator. Transgenic somatic (body-wall) muscle of the larva of Drosophila Melanogaster fruit fly was used as a Bioactuator. In this report, we first made photosensitive somatic muscle, which express channelrhodopshin-2 (ChR2) with gene manipulation. Then, we made a comparative review of some methods of utilizing the ChR2 expressing somatic muscle as a Bioactuator to generate contractile force in the one-dimensional direction. Finally, we confirmed the step response of the Bioactuator to optical stimulation in order to evaluate its basic characteristics.
